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WITNESSES V 1 INV NTORS I 'fy ATTORNEYS THE GRAN-us com; on) .LITH.39 amPARK Pucgrw.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIon.

GEORGE VANFOSSEN, JOHN E. VANFOSSEN, AND MARTIN VANFOSSEN, OF BETHESDA,OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTER-CUTTERS.

Specification-forming part of Letters Patent No. 161,075, dated March23, 1875; application filed February 13, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE VANFOSSEN, J OHN E. VANFOSSEN, and MARTINVANFOS- SEN, all of Bethesda, in the county of Belmont and State ofOhio, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Gutter-Bar forReapers; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the construction and operation of the same,reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a sectional View of ourcutter-bar. Figs. 2 and 3 are plan views of the same 5 and Fig. 4: is adetail view.

This invention has relation to means for attaching sickle-blades totheir bars, whereby the blades can be readily detached for sharpeningthem and for other purposes.

Our invention consists in confining the grooved shanks of thesickle-blades in recesses between two grooved plates, by means of a rodinserted in said grooves, as will be hereinafter explained.

The sickle-blades A are constructed with narrow shanks a, which havegrooves b transversely across them, and shoulders 61 d at their lateralangles. B B designate two narrow plates which constitute, when they aresecured together, the sickle-holding bar. The

bottom plate B is grooved transversely and also longitudinally. Thetransverse grooves in this plate B are made to snugly receive the shanksa of the blades A, as shown in Fig. 2, and the longitudinal groove inthis plate intersects the cross -grooves at right angles and receives arectangular rod, 0, which passes through the grooves b in the shanks ofblades A, and rigidly holds these blades in their places. The top plateor cap B is constructed with a longitudinal groove in it correspondingto the groovesin the shanks a and GEORGE VANFOSSEN. JOHN E. VANFOSSEN.MARTIN VANFOSSEN.

Witnesses ANDREW McILVAIN, KARL MGILVAIN.

